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    best brand of chicken feed?

    20% should be fine you can buy "recleaned" oats or wheat at feedstores Lemos Feed can get oats Templeton has wheat or I don't know where you live so a real feed place can get recleaned grains even milo sprouts well where I live is dry so sprouted grains take the place of grass...Tractor Supply...
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    Anyone else have midget whites?

    Males should weigh around 19 to 20 pounds when mature not 15 mine take 9 months to mature so young toms around 16 lbs hatched in Feb ready now....you can do them earlier but they will not be fully fleshed out. On the other breeds I prefer them over a year to 18 months that way they are finished...
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    Comment by 'Lotsapaints' in item 'Hatcher Cabinet Egg Incubator - 1550'

    I made wire cages to fit inside the trays I buy the paper they sell to line the trays makes it much easier to clean I just used cage clips to fasten the wire and use twisties to keep them in place made them about 5 inches tall works to keep them from getting in the some other section since I try...
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    **~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

    Okay after a weekend of softball that we didn't get told about until Friday night the grand daughter's team "Thunderbolts" won the tournament is she ever happy So today I locked down 11 turkey eggs I don't think one is good but you just never know and a bunch of tutors I still haven't fixed...
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    Birchen Marans Thread

    I don't have any listed but mine are a work in progress that said they bigger than most pretty beefy but are carrying gold and I haven't tested them for recessive yellow shanks but I haven't had any show up either they egg color at best was a 4/5 and right now some of the eggs are pretty light I...
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    **~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

    I hatched 76 chicks yesterday I took them out banded most of them sold 6 still have more banding to do so I can put them in the big brooder sadly most of these are for me too and I am going to put in more eggs today then as the weeks go by the chicks will be for other people thank goodness. I am...
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    **~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

    That's what I'm looking like right now except I have the flashlight blinding my chicks that are hatching...I can't candle because I know better than to open it now
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    **~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

    wrap that incubator up in blankets and you'll be just fine I unplugged mine once for a half a day my turkeys even hatched on time they're tuffer than you think
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    **~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

    really I've even met ronott1 I am a woman don't want to be a girl again either.....well I have chicks making quite the racket and how many times have you all candled your eggs? I can't since I have chicks hatching in there....have about 4 dozen turkey eggs so far to put in there Sat or Sunday...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    way to go I understand the crying of relief now I hope his recovery will be smooth for you. My hatch started at noonish today lots of pips looks like the wheatens are the first marans to pop then the blue coppers look like they are waiting for somebody in their cage to get out first they are...
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    **~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

    Congrats on your NPIP I've thought about it and well that's as far as I've gotten... If you like dark meat then a heritage bird is what you want. They have white and dark but as said the texture is different and I prefer the heritage ones over the BB I just like the texture better not mushy...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    I have a wire bottom pen a rabbit cage I think old one anyways I feed them and water them takes about 3 days or turn them in with a young cock.....sometimes it doesn't matter they are going to set whatever you do.....good luck
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    **~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

    I hear cheeping mine shouldn't hatch until tomorrow yep having a cabinet incubator is bad I can fit almost 300 eggs in mine tetris is difficult because of how far the shelf tilts but I stagger the hatches trying to miss events I want to go to..I'm missing a trail ride because I didn't count the...
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    the little guy is for sure a cross yellow legs are recessive and that's how they can show up even in a "pure bred" flock white are dominate whenever you get crossbred chicks never think any of them as "pure" just enjoy them as they are so pretty
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    really that's from the shank feathering not a big deal if they have that short toes go along with heavy feathering. I never keep the ones I've hatched with the fused toes but I will use one with the short toe as long as there is no middle toe feathers. Do you have a SOP? That book explains the...
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    california - CENTRAL COAST

    Hi I'm in Paso I have New Hampshires, Partridge Rocks,Marans many varieties and Delawares for chickens and I have Midget Whites, Palms, Bourbons and a mixed bunch of turkeys..
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    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    I prefer hatching from 2+ year old hens increases vigor as any weak ones will have been culled and by that age they have molted so I can tell what color faults they have. I do hatch from year old birds testing that helps me figure out matings since I do mostly single mating or "pedigree" I want...
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    **~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

    I set 9 eggs on Tuesday because I have eggs that will be hatching thursday and my cabinet isn't really designed to hatch in so I have to turn off the turner or else I might have mashed chicks if they hang out on the edges....I so want a hatcher I have plenty of eggs waiting for Friday 3 dozen so...
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    **~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

    no you'll be making blue Palms......really go look at Porters now you'll have a "rare" color. I get around the processing part by taking them in to get done I always say I will not get attached always a part of my heart goes with them which is promptly forgotten when they are nameless in a...
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    the birds have a nice profile not real large wide all the way through nice leg feathering combs are okay good eye color etc they look like jean/wade birds of all my birds any that are wade/jean those have the best egg color as I like the rich reddish hue I have won with their eggs so you should...
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